South Dakoooota and Minnesooooota

We visited the famous Wall Drug Store, which turned out to be a small mall complex with a Wild West theme. Wood panel walls, leather and mineral goods for sale, stern black and white photographs of Native Americans with their names in caligraphy ("Rain in the Face", "Low Dog"...), as well as home made ice cream, which we took to go.



Dinner was at the Anchor Grille in Chamberlain, South Dakota, "Where friends meet." Our waitress was a petite woman of about 21: sweet, doting, and accommodating, her name tattooed on one forearm and her son's name tattooed on the other next to "lil mamma". She explained that she had about 16 tattoos "all over".

We sat directly behind a group of locale hunters wearing camouflage and splashes of orange.


Meanwhile, doogle flaunted his "Go vegan or die" world view.


For dessert, we had the "deep fat fried snickers", a snickers bar wrapped in a tortilla, deep fried, then served with two scoops of vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, and cinnamon.


Some of us had a different notion of dessert. After setting up at our campsite, we welcomed Jinnah and Astrid to their first night on the RV with Macallan and Talisker scotches, Joose and Four Loko. The last of the liar's dice players finally quit around 5am.


We caravanned through Minnesota this morning.


And had lunch at a rest stop, where deep fried cheese curds welcome us to the midwest.